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The Butler Collegian: Volume 4 Issue 5

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The Butler Collegian.
VOL. IV. IRVINGTON, IND., FEBRUARY, 1889. NO. 5.
The Butler Collegian.
PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE LITERARY SOCIETIES.
EDITORS:
Editor in Chief ... T. C. HOWE, '89.
Assistant Editor ... JENNIE ARMSTRONG '89
Literary ... WILL H. GRAFFIS, '89.
VIDA TIBBOTT, '89.
JULIA GRAYDON, '90.
Local ... HENRY S. SCHELL, '90.
ANASTASIA MEEKER, '90.
WM. F. CLARKE, '91.
Exchange Editor ... ANDREW J. SHERFY, '91.
Business Manager ... WILL G. IRWIN, '89.
All communications for publication may be addressed to the
Editor-in-Chief; all in regard to subscriptions, advertisements, etc., to
the Business Manager.
The Alumni of the University are invited to send items, poems, sketches,
short articles, and especially personal notices.
Associate Editors will be pleased to receive reports of incidents and
events of college interest.
TERMS:
$1.00 Per Year in Advance. Single Copies, 15 Cents.
All bills for advertising due after first insertion.
Entered as second-class matter at the post office at Irvington, Indiana.
EDITORIAL. This present term of Butler bids fair to go down in our
college history as a decidedly "measly" period. The gods have hitherto
smiled upon us in respect to such sweeping epidemics, but for some
mysterious reason we are now getting a little more than our share of the
divine wrath. We regret very much to say, and shall probably have still
greater cause for regret about the time that term examinations come on,
that this fell disease has struck the COLLEGIAN staff with full and
unspent force. Four of our number, having neglected in the blissful
period of their infancy to ward off all future danger from this
pestiferous plague, have, in their noble manhood and womanhood, been laid
low upon restless couches with genuine measles--and three of these are
"grave and reverend Seniors." Nor have the Faculty escaped unscathed.
One of their number has succumbed to what was claimed to be a "bad cold,"
but has since developed into a case of the common affliction. Others of
the professors, we hear, are awaiting their turn with fear and trembling.
Since we were doomed, we are glad we took the lead and have recovered.
We can now go around and offer sympathy to the unfortunates, while, in
reality, we feel a secret satisfaction in seeing the number of victims
increase, for "misery loves company." Truly, with a small-pox scare at
Ann Arbor and Sage, N.Y., and measles at Butler, the way of the college
student lithe in hard places.
We seriously doubt whether any notice whatever should be given to such
manifest attempts to attract attention as were displayed in the January
Wabash. In that issue, the writer said: "We thank God we are not as
other students are. * * *" And then proceeded to give reasons for his
rejoicing by ridiculing the students of other colleges in the state.
However, we wish to enter our protest against such profane use of the
Creator's name. Forsooth, a few more efforts like this will set all the
other Indiana college editors likewise to praying

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The Butler Collegian.
VOL. IV. IRVINGTON, IND., FEBRUARY, 1889. NO. 5.
The Butler Collegian.
PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE LITERARY SOCIETIES.
EDITORS:
Editor in Chief ... T. C. HOWE, '89.
Assistant Editor ... JENNIE ARMSTRONG '89
Literary ... WILL H. GRAFFIS, '89.
VIDA TIBBOTT, '89.
JULIA GRAYDON, '90.
Local ... HENRY S. SCHELL, '90.
ANASTASIA MEEKER, '90.
WM. F. CLARKE, '91.
Exchange Editor ... ANDREW J. SHERFY, '91.
Business Manager ... WILL G. IRWIN, '89.
All communications for publication may be addressed to the
Editor-in-Chief; all in regard to subscriptions, advertisements, etc., to
the Business Manager.
The Alumni of the University are invited to send items, poems, sketches,
short articles, and especially personal notices.
Associate Editors will be pleased to receive reports of incidents and
events of college interest.
TERMS:
$1.00 Per Year in Advance. Single Copies, 15 Cents.
All bills for advertising due after first insertion.
Entered as second-class matter at the post office at Irvington, Indiana.
EDITORIAL. This present term of Butler bids fair to go down in our
college history as a decidedly "measly" period. The gods have hitherto
smiled upon us in respect to such sweeping epidemics, but for some
mysterious reason we are now getting a little more than our share of the
divine wrath. We regret very much to say, and shall probably have still
greater cause for regret about the time that term examinations come on,
that this fell disease has struck the COLLEGIAN staff with full and
unspent force. Four of our number, having neglected in the blissful
period of their infancy to ward off all future danger from this
pestiferous plague, have, in their noble manhood and womanhood, been laid
low upon restless couches with genuine measles--and three of these are
"grave and reverend Seniors." Nor have the Faculty escaped unscathed.
One of their number has succumbed to what was claimed to be a "bad cold,"
but has since developed into a case of the common affliction. Others of
the professors, we hear, are awaiting their turn with fear and trembling.
Since we were doomed, we are glad we took the lead and have recovered.
We can now go around and offer sympathy to the unfortunates, while, in
reality, we feel a secret satisfaction in seeing the number of victims
increase, for "misery loves company." Truly, with a small-pox scare at
Ann Arbor and Sage, N.Y., and measles at Butler, the way of the college
student lithe in hard places.
We seriously doubt whether any notice whatever should be given to such
manifest attempts to attract attention as were displayed in the January
Wabash. In that issue, the writer said: "We thank God we are not as
other students are. * * *" And then proceeded to give reasons for his
rejoicing by ridiculing the students of other colleges in the state.
However, we wish to enter our protest against such profane use of the
Creator's name. Forsooth, a few more efforts like this will set all the
other Indiana college editors likewise to praying

This work is in the Public Domain, meaning that it is not subject to copyright. Users are free to copy, use, and redistribute the work in part or in whole. It is possible that heirs or the estate of the authors of individual portions of the work, such as illustrations, assert copyrights over these portions. Depending on the nature of subsequent use that is made, additional rights may need to be obtained. For questions please contact Butler University Libraries.